Monthly Archives: January 2011

Project idea: Video game blog

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Brittany Leigh Davis

Video games are part of our culture now. Almost everyone has heard of or played a video game, with the big contenders being Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Video games can even include such games Bejeweled or Farmville or anything on … Continue reading →

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A Digital Museum?

Posted on January 30, 2011 by C.Wolf

I love museums.  I could spend days in a museum.  With some museums there are truly not enough hours in a day to see everything; with other museums there is not enough space to fit everything in to the museum. … Continue reading →

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The Wonderful World of Wordle

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Jared Ferenczy

Wordle.net is a very curious little website. The website describes itself as, “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text [the user] provide[s].” That is pretty much the only way to describe Wordle that I can think of. Alright, not … Continue reading →

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Voyeur: A Text Analysis Tool

Posted on January 29, 2011 by kelseyfritz

Voyeur is a free online text analysis tool that is being constructed as part of the Hermeneuti.ca project. On their site, creators Stefan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell define Hermeneuti.ca as a way to “think through some foundations of contemporary text … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Your Data With IBM’s Many Eyes

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Ethan Klapper

Many Eyes is a powerful tool that enables a user to create visualizations from any kind of data set. Here’s where it gets fun: while a user can upload their own data set, Many Eyes is a community-powered tool. There … Continue reading →

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project idea: Wandering the Wastes: Fallout and Imagery of Nuclear War

Posted on January 28, 2011 by PeterB

Video games, like movies serve as cultural measuring sticks.  Because they are primarily visual media they tend to be packed with culturally significant imagery.  During the past two decades, historians have begun unpacking and examining the images within film as … Continue reading →

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No Class Tonight

Posted on January 27, 2011 by tjowens

Everyone should have gotten emails from the university. Class is canceled for the evening. We will keep to the schedule. So everyone should read next weeks readings and blog if you are signed up to blog. We will just condense the two weeks … Continue reading →

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[Insert Clever Flickr Title Here]

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Mark Natale

An interactive tool for the amateur photographer, Flikcr creates a whole new playground for both beginners and experts on digital photo storage. Flickr, created by Yahoo presents a home for photographers of all skill levels to post their photos in … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Richter Sundeen

As Bonnie’s post below adroitly demonstrates, Wikipedia is a site with a deeply-ingrained ethos and traditions that might not be familiar to the casual user, a tribal society that debates the content of pages hidden behind talk pages that regular … Continue reading →

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History…The Wikipedia Way???

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Bonnie Clark

Is Wikipedia a good reliable source of historical scholarship? The answer to this question depends upon several factors including, but not limited to our own relationship to historical scholarship.  According to Roy Rosenzweig, “History is a deeply individualistic craft” and … Continue reading →

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